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Twenty-Five Lectures on World Mythology
Peking University Press · 2025
From an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on a wealth of newly discovered archaeological evidence and knowledge, the author travels through the t…
Selected Chinese Creation Myths
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024
Creation myths play a vital role as archetypes of human thought. By telling stories of the origin of the universe and the coming of humankind, they la…
Ancestral Spirits in Heaven: Five Thousand Years of Stories of Jade Human Figures and Handle-shaped Objects
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024
As early as prehistoric times, before civilization and the state existed, idol worship and the making of gods had already become widespread. A particu…
Pangu's Axe: A Nine-Thousand-Year Story of Jade Axes and Battle-Axes
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021
The myth of Pangu splitting heaven from earth is a literary fiction, yet the axe and halberd he used to do so have a material and cultural history of …
Restating Mythological China: Cultural Text Theory and the Perspective of Evidential Intertextuality in Literary Anthropology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2019
This book is compiled from papers submitted to the Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Literary Anthropology, classified and organized throug…
Comparative Mythology in China: Reflection and Exploration
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2017
The "Reflection" section of this book takes the origins of comparative mythology in the West and in China as its starting point, systematically summar…
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